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Videobox and alternative video viewers
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1018732"><p>First: there is no "Mac registry." You really do need to unlearn your Windows thinking. There are also no Mac viruses, thus you can't download any. If you downloaded a Windows virus, it wouldn't do anything.</p><p></p><p>Second: your entire post is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. You are confusing two completely different programs that have nothing to do with each other. Videobox on the Mac is a flash downloading program and works perfectly normally (and uninstalls perfectly normally). Videobox for the PC is spyware. The fact that they have the same name is pure coincidence; they are not developed by the same company.</p><p></p><p>I really don't see how you could have missed this rather glaringly obvious fact, since all the links YOU provided to the "warnings" about Videobox are *obviously* about the Windows program, which RIGHT IN THEIR OWN DESCRIPTION identifies the Windows "Videobox" as a video codec, NOT A PROGRAM, and certainly not a Flash downloader, which the Mac program rather obviously identifies itself as.</p><p></p><p>You don't *need* Videobox (the Mac program), it is merely one of dozens of "download videos from YouTube" type programs, but it's rather obviously NOT the same thing as the similarly-named Windows program.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1018732"] First: there is no "Mac registry." You really do need to unlearn your Windows thinking. There are also no Mac viruses, thus you can't download any. If you downloaded a Windows virus, it wouldn't do anything. Second: your entire post is based on a fundamental misunderstanding. You are confusing two completely different programs that have nothing to do with each other. Videobox on the Mac is a flash downloading program and works perfectly normally (and uninstalls perfectly normally). Videobox for the PC is spyware. The fact that they have the same name is pure coincidence; they are not developed by the same company. I really don't see how you could have missed this rather glaringly obvious fact, since all the links YOU provided to the "warnings" about Videobox are *obviously* about the Windows program, which RIGHT IN THEIR OWN DESCRIPTION identifies the Windows "Videobox" as a video codec, NOT A PROGRAM, and certainly not a Flash downloader, which the Mac program rather obviously identifies itself as. You don't *need* Videobox (the Mac program), it is merely one of dozens of "download videos from YouTube" type programs, but it's rather obviously NOT the same thing as the similarly-named Windows program. [/QUOTE]
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